Prof. Klaus BOSSELMANN

Professor of Law, Director of New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, University of Auckland

Dr Klaus Bosselmann is Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland. His expertise is in the areas of international environmental law, global governance and comparative constitutional law. He has served as a consultant to the UN, the OECD, the European Union and the governments of Germany and New Zealand. He is Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Ethics Specialist Group, Chair of the Ecological Law and Governance Association, Co-Chair of the Global Ecological Integrity Group and Chair of the Earth Trusteeship Initiative.

Professor Bosselmann has authored or edited over 30 books in the areas of political ecology, international environmental law and global governance. For his pioneering work on ecological law and Earth jurisprudence he received numerous awards including the Inaugural Senior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.